(African-American) McRee, Patsie. The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch. Roman Bookplate signed by Sonoko Sakai

Bookplate signed by Sonoko Sakai mounted inside

in Los Angeles’ Chinatown

native asparagus

“There is religion in a good loaf of bread

he has been luckier in roulette than in love

(African-American) McRee, Patsie. The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch. Roman Bookplate signed by Sonoko SakaiIllus, with drawings of African Americans working in the South, by K. Burke. Dec. brownn cloth lettered in yellow. First Edition. Atlanta: Cullom & Ghertner, 1948. Signed by author Patsie McRee on the front free endpaper. The restaurant was famous for its racist portrayals of Black people (especially their own servers and performers); more can be learned about it here. Poems in negro dialect by the daughter of a former landowner for whom numerous